When double clicking a word that has punctuation or numbers in it, only the portion of the word that is clicked on is highlighted. For example, if you have the word Frank's and double click the word somewhere around the a, you'd highlight "Frank" and not the entire word. Likewise, if you have a word with numbers in it you don't get the whole word higlighted. It would be nice to have the word-boundry be some kind of space. Likewise, it would probably be acceptable to have the word boundary include a hyphen.

Additionally, if you have a line of text, it can be difficult to add the last word in a line to a selection. In a new gedit window, put the line "The word Temp1 is a word containing numbers" (without quotes). Then, double click the word Temp1 and on the second click, hold the mouse down. Drag to the right to add additional words to the selection. As you drag to "numbers" it will momentarily become higlighted, but if you continue to drag past the end of the word it will un-highlight.

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